Here's a real life scenario for you folks.
Recently I was assigned to run some cases through the City Prosecutor's Office. They had bullet proof glass in front of the receptionist and they had to buzz you in and buzz you out, but the buzzer is hidden.
We were deep in conference one day in the senior prosecutor's office when some of the office's goodies had to be moved to another office...the receptionist had asked for some city workers to move the stuff and here came work release guys (about five of them)...these are guys who are assigned various tasks to work in city government and they are hopefully learning a trade, most of them are gang type guys who have learned to work the system).
Only trouble is when I went to go borrow a pen from the receptionist, I looked up at a 3 x 5 picture posted below the window and one of the work release guys matches the guys who has made death threats against one of the city prosecutors and this guy is walking around in the office! He is a felon on the work release gang and one of his past transgressions was that he murdered his girl friend, one of the prosecutors had got him convicted for a long time, he wanted to kill the prosecutor, everyone was supposed to keep an eye out for this man and not let him in the office, but here the receptionist had let him in.
In the early days, the city prosecutors folks did not go packing! After this incident, they all got training and carried issue weapons.
Okay? Now you're in a contained security office, what do you do? You don't know where the buzzer is to let you out of the office and you have a known felon who has made death threats to one of the people in the office.
What do you do? You are not armed.
Recently I was assigned to run some cases through the City Prosecutor's Office. They had bullet proof glass in front of the receptionist and they had to buzz you in and buzz you out, but the buzzer is hidden.
We were deep in conference one day in the senior prosecutor's office when some of the office's goodies had to be moved to another office...the receptionist had asked for some city workers to move the stuff and here came work release guys (about five of them)...these are guys who are assigned various tasks to work in city government and they are hopefully learning a trade, most of them are gang type guys who have learned to work the system).
Only trouble is when I went to go borrow a pen from the receptionist, I looked up at a 3 x 5 picture posted below the window and one of the work release guys matches the guys who has made death threats against one of the city prosecutors and this guy is walking around in the office! He is a felon on the work release gang and one of his past transgressions was that he murdered his girl friend, one of the prosecutors had got him convicted for a long time, he wanted to kill the prosecutor, everyone was supposed to keep an eye out for this man and not let him in the office, but here the receptionist had let him in.
In the early days, the city prosecutors folks did not go packing! After this incident, they all got training and carried issue weapons.
Okay? Now you're in a contained security office, what do you do? You don't know where the buzzer is to let you out of the office and you have a known felon who has made death threats to one of the people in the office.
What do you do? You are not armed.